Minor things that bother you

[Max Rockatansky]

Always when a driver cuts you off many of them have dark tinted windows it appears.  You can't tell who cut you off if it's an old lady or a younger or middle aged wiseass.

Perhaps don't obsess over who cut you off and just focus on the fact they did it and you have to keep yourself safe.

I do, but it seems odd that most people who drive obnoxiously hide behind tint.  Like that's the reason for dark windows even though most people get them for privacy especially those who party in their car.

Most people have tint here because otherwise they cook in the summer.

Well, who wants to cook when you can order take out?

Yes, all you have to do is just stop by the nearest Olive Garden for some takeout.

They treat you like family.

[jeffandnicole]

Always when a driver cuts you off many of them have dark tinted windows it appears.  You can't tell who cut you off if it's an old lady or a younger or middle aged wiseass.

Perhaps don't obsess over who cut you off and just focus on the fact they did it and you have to keep yourself safe.

I do, but it seems odd that most people who drive obnoxiously hide behind tint.  Like that's the reason for dark windows even though most people get them for privacy especially those who party in their car.

Most people have tint here because otherwise they cook in the summer.

Well, who wants to cook when you can order take out?

Yes, all you have to do is just stop by the nearest Olive Garden for some takeout.

They treat you like family.

Rich family. Look at the size of the parking lot holding all their vehicles.

[Big John]

^^ with the dysfunctional relative.

[mgk920]

I usually just go on my way smugly thinking that the aggressive boughnheads will get their just karma in due time.

Mike

[webny99]

boughnheads

This tweet is all I could think of when I saw this bizarre spelling.

[vdeane]

Always when a driver cuts you off many of them have dark tinted windows it appears.  You can't tell who cut you off if it's an old lady or a younger or middle aged wiseass.

Perhaps don't obsess over who cut you off and just focus on the fact they did it and you have to keep yourself safe.

I do, but it seems odd that most people who drive obnoxiously hide behind tint.  Like that's the reason for dark windows even though most people get them for privacy especially those who party in their car.

Most people have tint here because otherwise they cook in the summer.

Well, who wants to cook when you can order take out?

Yes, all you have to do is just stop by the nearest Olive Garden for some takeout.

They treat you like family.

No, that's Mark's Pizzeria.

[SectorZ]

This one is semi-road related, people who have what I liked to call "dead end road disease".

You know the type, the ones that live at the end of a dead-end street and pretend like they own pretty much everything from the next-to-last house to their house. I have four dead end roads in my neighborhood and almost all the ends in ways are stymied by it, but my end is the full blow stage 4 version of it. There are actually two homes at the end of my street, and how the one who has watched their driveway at times taken over has put up with it confuses me.

[Rothman]

This one is semi-road related, people who have what I liked to call "dead end road disease".

You know the type, the ones that live at the end of a dead-end street and pretend like they own pretty much everything from the next-to-last house to their house. I have four dead end roads in my neighborhood and almost all the ends in ways are stymied by it, but my end is the full blow stage 4 version of it. There are actually two homes at the end of my street, and how the one who has watched their driveway at times taken over has put up with it confuses me.

What's this now?  Haven't had this experience and it doesn't sound minor.

[SectorZ]

This one is semi-road related, people who have what I liked to call "dead end road disease".

You know the type, the ones that live at the end of a dead-end street and pretend like they own pretty much everything from the next-to-last house to their house. I have four dead end roads in my neighborhood and almost all the ends in ways are stymied by it, but my end is the full blow stage 4 version of it. There are actually two homes at the end of my street, and how the one who has watched their driveway at times taken over has put up with it confuses me.

What's this now?  Haven't had this experience and it doesn't sound minor.

Ever live on a dead end, especially one not a cul-de-sac?

It's a minor thing for me because I am insulated from it by a couple hundred of feet. For their next-door neighbors it may be more than minor. I don't get a chance to talk with one much and the other has looked like he wants to go supernova sometimes over it.

[Rothman]

This one is semi-road related, people who have what I liked to call "dead end road disease".

You know the type, the ones that live at the end of a dead-end street and pretend like they own pretty much everything from the next-to-last house to their house. I have four dead end roads in my neighborhood and almost all the ends in ways are stymied by it, but my end is the full blow stage 4 version of it. There are actually two homes at the end of my street, and how the one who has watched their driveway at times taken over has put up with it confuses me.

What's this now?  Haven't had this experience and it doesn't sound minor.

Ever live on a dead end, especially one not a cul-de-sac?

It's a minor thing for me because I am insulated from it by a couple hundred of feet. For their next-door neighbors it may be more than minor. I don't get a chance to talk with one much and the other has looked like he wants to go supernova sometimes over it.

But what is blocking what?

[Bruce]

A lot of homeowners feel very entitled to the public street that is in front of their property. That includes parking spots, which are free within the reasonable limits set by the local government.

[Scott5114]

A lot of homeowners feel very entitled to the public street that is in front of their property. That includes parking spots, which are free within the reasonable limits set by the local government.

It's really annoying when you invite someone over to your house, but your guest has to park far away, because some random person you don't know parked there instead. Or if you're trying to load or unload something from a truck. But hey, Billy Bob with the Texas plates has every legal right to park there, despite the fact that he should be parking in front of the actual fucking house he's visiting, which has a whole goddamn driveway in front of it.

[ZLoth]

I actually tell people who are delivering major items on my home and/or performing work to part in my driveway at the back of my home. It's actually easier than going through the front of my home.

[Scott5114]

Yes, I had a side driveway that I could use to receive deliveries if I was arranging it in advance, but to actually get it in the door that way meant I had to move one of the cars out of the garage to establish a clear path to the door (entry to the house from the garage required a left turn from the garage door, so if a car was in the way you only had about a foot or so of usable space between it and the wall).

For stuff like where I didn't have the advance notice to clear a path, "friend noticed we didn't have enough good chairs for get-togethers so she spontaneously decided to bring some she wasn't using", it would be nice if Billy Bob that we don't know wasn't exercising his God-given right-of-way out front of our house.

It's enough to make an honest roadgeek want to counterfeit an R7-1.

[LilianaUwU]

It's enough to make an honest roadgeek want to counterfeit an R7-1.

Speaking of R7, I saw this in Québec City of all places:

Signs in Vieux-Québec - 7 by Liliana Vess, on Flickr

I could start a whole discussion about the use of English in Québec, but meh.

[ZLoth]

Yes, I had a side driveway that I could use to receive deliveries if I was arranging it in advance, but to actually get it in the door that way meant I had to move one of the cars out of the garage to establish a clear path to the door (entry to the house from the garage required a left turn from the garage door, so if a car was in the way you only had about a foot or so of usable space between it and the wall).

Since I work from home , I can arrange my life around a delivery. Only in rare instances do I ask for the vehicle to be moved.

[1995hoo]

I remember when I was in college, the person who owned the house seen in this Street View image posted a store-bought "No Parking" sign on the gate seen in that image where there are two white lines painted on the pavement near the mailbox. The concern wasn't with neighbors; rather, the homeowner didn't like the gate being blocked on Saturday evenings and on Sunday by people parking to go to Mass at the church located across the next street behind the camera viewpoint. (The church that's there now is bigger than the building back then and has a lot more parking, so the on-street parking is less of an issue than it was 30 years ago.) Old Street View from 2012 shows such a sign located next to the gate where the white Jeep is parked in the current image. The sign was completely unenforceable, of course, and I remember some people routinely went ahead and parked there. I don't ever remember anything coming of it, and I assume the homeowner never complained to the parish staff about people parking there because there were never any announcements made about it.

I can understand wanting the mailbox access to remain unobstructed for the mailman, but on the other hand, there's no mail delivery on Sunday.


What annoys me is when workmen or moving men at a nearby house see a car parked in your driveway yet proceed to block it without first ringing the doorbell and suggesting you might want to move your car if you need to go anywhere. Our street is all yellow curbs anyway, but as a practical matter, I recognize why a moving truck has to be parked there. But if the movers block my driveway and I need to get the car out, I don't hesitate to ask them to move. At least once, movers got huffy about it. My reaction: "You have five minutes to move that truck or I call the police." They moved the truck. It would not at all be difficult for them to ring the doorbell—or even for the person who's moving to notify the neighbors in advance. (The people directly across the street from us did that when they moved in: They taped a note to the common mailbox unit up the block advising of what day the movers would be here.)

[Rothman]

I came home from a vacation to find a contractor's truck in my driveway, blocking the entrance to my garage.  I called the police, who just called the contractor.  The fun part is they then destroyed my side yard driving across it to access my neighbor's backyard.  Thankfully, they repaired it without me needing to sue.

In terms of street parking, I'm going to park in front of Scott's house.

[Max Rockatansky]

Being in Michigan for a week reaffirmed for me how much I hated having a large yard with grass.  I never enjoyed spending my entire weekend mowing the yard and tending to the hedge.

[JayhawkCO]

Being in Michigan for a week reaffirmed for me how much I hated having a large yard with grass.  I never enjoyed spending my entire weekend mowing the yard and tending to the hedge.

I'm still in my first home and couldn't be happier that it's xeriscaped.

[Scott5114]

But if the movers block my driveway and I need to get the car out, I don't hesitate to ask them to move. At least once, movers got huffy about it. My reaction: "You have five minutes to move that truck or I call the police."

In Norman, I had to call the police on the police once, because they were blocking my driveway. (It was an unmarked cop car—I could tell because it had city plates—but that let me play dumb and call it in as a "suspicious vehicle".) The dispatcher sounded really annoyed, but the cop moved...so he could go harass my wife for playing Pokémon Go in a church parking lot.

I'm going to park in front of Scott's house.

Joke's on you, I don't have a house anymore!

[webny99]

Another entry:

Restaurants that serve both breakfast and lunch doing a hard switchover to the lunch menu at 10:30 AM. Firstly, who wants lunch at 10:30AM? And secondly, who hasn't wanted a late breakfast after 10:30AM, especially on the weekends? Am I crazy or would 11 be a more logical switchover time (that is if you absolutely cannot serve both at once; ideally it would make sense to serve both for an hour or two before noon).

[JayhawkCO]

Another entry:

Restaurants that serve both breakfast and lunch doing a hard switchover to the lunch menu at 10:30 AM. Firstly, who wants lunch at 10:30AM? And secondly, who hasn't wanted a late breakfast after 10:30AM, especially on the weekends? Am I crazy or would 11 be a more logical switchover time (that is if you absolutely cannot serve both at once; ideally it would make sense to serve both for an hour or two before noon).

I agree with your timing thoughts, but as far as trying to serve both at the same time, for most restaurants, it's pretty hard. You need to have different things set up on your station for completely different meal periods. Real estate is tight in a kitchen, so putting away the breakfast potatoes gives you room to have fries. Putting away the eggs and bacon gives you room for pasta and sandwich bread, etc. At the hotel I ran before Covid, we didn't serve any food at all between 10:30 and 11:00 to do the change over.

[Max Rockatansky]

Another entry:

Restaurants that serve both breakfast and lunch doing a hard switchover to the lunch menu at 10:30 AM. Firstly, who wants lunch at 10:30AM? And secondly, who hasn't wanted a late breakfast after 10:30AM, especially on the weekends? Am I crazy or would 11 be a more logical switchover time (that is if you absolutely cannot serve both at once; ideally it would make sense to serve both for an hour or two before noon).

Showing your east coast there.  Lunch solidly begins at 10:30 AM out west. 

[ZLoth]

Restaurants that serve both breakfast and lunch doing a hard switchover to the lunch menu at 10:30 AM. Firstly, who wants lunch at 10:30AM?

Me... especially if I started work at 5 AM in the morning... or earlier....

And secondly, who hasn't wanted a late breakfast after 10:30AM, especially on the weekends?

I have known friends who have had breakfast... at 6:30 PM... not a typo. And they weren't night shift people.